Dr. Marcel Ricker
Dr. Marcel Ricker
Hydrodynamik und Datenassimilation
WissenschaftlerTel: +49 (0)4152 87-1506
Research Interests
• Wave Modelling
• Physical Oceanography
• Ocean Modelling
• Operational Oceanography
• Shelf Sea Dynamics
• Lagrangian Dynamics
• Particle Tracking
• Marine Litter
Projects
- BLK-MFC Copernicus 2 Phase 2 (Black Sea - Monitoring Forecasting Centre) 2024 – today
- NWS-MFC Copernicus 2 Phase 2 (Black Sea - Monitoring Forecasting Centre) 2024 – today
- DAWN (Data Assimilation of Wave Spectra Observations and its Impact on Sea State Predictions) from 2024 (PI)
- VERIBLUE (Validation/Verification and Intercomparison of Forecast and Reanalysis Blue Products) 2023 - today
- DEISY(Design Study (and Implementation) of a High-Resolution Forecasting System for the Blue and Green Ocean in the North Sea) 2023 - today
- CRANMANII (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zur Biologie und Fischerei der Nordseegarnele CRANgon CRANgon als Basis für ein effizientes Selbst-Management-System) 2023 - today
- NECCTON (New Copernicus Capability for Trophic Ocean Networks) 2023 - today
- Technischer Support und Validierung des gekoppelten Wellenmodells „ICON-WAM“ des DWD from 2023 (PI)
- Installation of the wave model WAM at the Omani weather service" 2023 - today
- SYNWAVE (Data Assimilation of Wave Spectra Observations) 2023 - today
- BS-MFC Copernicus 2 (Black Sea - Monitoring Forecasting Centre) 2022 - today
- SEA-ReCap (Research Capacity Building for Healthy, Productive and Resilient Seas) 2021 - today
- DOORS Black Sea (Developing Optimal and Open Research Support for the Black Sea) 2021 - today
- COSYNA (Coastal Observing System for Northern and Arctic Seas) 2018 - today
- BS-MFC (Black Sea - Monitoring Forecasting Centre" 2018 - 2021
- "Macroplastics Pollution in the Southern North Sea - Sources, Pathways and Abatement Strategies" 2016 - 2020
Professional Career:
2018 - today:
Wave modelling in the Black Sea
Hydrodynamic modelling in the North Sea
Education:
2016 - 2021:
PhD student in Physical Oceanography, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Thesis title: "On the Dynamics of Floating Marine Litter in the North Sea"
2014 - 2016:
Master of Science in Physical Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Germany
Thesis title: "Process studies on Baltic inflows"
2010 - 2014:
Bachelor of Science in Physical Oceanography, University of Hamburg, Germany
Thesis title: "Double diffusive structures of the Mediterranean outflow"
- Ricker, M., Kousal, J., Günther, H., Behrens, A., & Staneva, J. (2025). The introduction of observation-based wave physics into the wind-wave model WAM: Wave assessments for a semi-enclosed basin. Ocean Modelling, 197, 102564. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocemod.2025.102564
- Ricker, M., Behrens, A., & Staneva, J. (2024): The operational CMEMS wind wave forecasting system of the Black Sea. Journal of Operational Oceanography, 1–22, doi:10.1080/1755876X.2024.2364974
- Villa Castrillón, L., Ricker, M., Staneva, J., Meyerjürgens, J., Badewien, T.H., & Stanev, E.V. (2024): Relative dispersion and relative diffusivities in an ocean-wave coupled model of the North Sea. Ocean Dynamics (2024), doi:10.1007/s10236-024-01619-6
- Zlateva, I., Ricker, M., Slabakova, V., Slavova, K., Doncheva, V., Staneva, J., Stanev, E., Popov, I., Gramcianinov, C., & Raykov, V. (2024): Analysis of terrestrial and riverine sources of plastic litter contributing to plastic pollution in the Western Black Sea using а lagrangian particle tracking model. Marine Pollution Bulletin, Vol 209, Part A, 117108, doi:10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.117108
- Meyerjürgens, J., Ricker, M., Aden, C., Albinus, M., Barrelet, J., Freund, H., Hahner, F., Lettmann, K.A., Mose, I., Schaal, P., Schöneich-Argent, R.I., Stanev, E.V., Wolff, J.-O., Zielinski, O., & Badewien, T.H. (2023): Sources, pathways, and abatement strategies of macroplastic pollution: an interdisciplinary approach for the southern North Sea. Front. Mar. Sci., 10:1148714, doi:10.3389/fmars.2023.1148714